How to use Plex

Please note: if you have Plex support already enabled "the old way" (using the shared plex server), you need to disable it first (your media will remain untouched) and then refresh your seedbox details page, in order to see the Plex as a dedicated application in the "Installable applications" list.

The Plex Media Server is a closed source project, that is intended as a home media center, in order to stream your personal library.

We support a dedicated plex server installation, meaning you will have administration access over your own plex server, and be able to change its settings at will.

Plex Installation
First you need to create a Plex.tv account if you already do not have one. It is free to create one.

Login to your client area.
After you log in to your seedbox account, click in the "My Client Area" button.

Under "My Seedboxes" click on the little gear icon next to the seedbox you want to use and click on the "Manage Seedbox" button.

Scroll down and Click on the Installable Apps Tab. Click on "Add Application".From the application list, click on "Plex Media Server", then click INSTALL.

A popup emerges, which asks your CLAIM CODE. This is a code, which can be retrieved from here. This code, will link the newly installed Plex Media Server with your Plex.tv username. This code expires 5 minutes after it is generated, so please make sure to use it immediately after it is generated and proceed with the Plex server installation.

ATTENTION: Please use the "Copy to Clipboard" button to copy paste the code, instead of manually selecting the code. This is important. We have reports of the plex server not correctly installing when users did not use the copy-to-clipboard button

Once you click INSTALL, the installation will commence and you will be informed once it is completed.

Once Plex is installed, you can click the "Go to Application" button to visit your new plex installation. Alternatively, you can go to https://plex.tv and after you login, to click the "Launch" Button on the top right corner of the screen.

Please login with your Plex.tv account. Please be careful not to use your seedboxes.cc account to login, you need to use the credentials of yourPlex.tvaccount instead.

The setup is now completed. Our automated installer should have created 3 default libraries for you (Movies, TV and Music). You can create as many other libraries as you want of course.Streaming with Plex

IMPORTANT: To stream your media files you will need to move your media files inside the appropriate Plex directory! Please try to avoid to point your ~/files/downloads folder as your Movies and TV path in your libraries. If you do this, your plex server will underperform during scanning of new media, will make many wrong matches, and potential crash often.

Moving your files with ruTorrent

If you want to continue seeding the files and move them, then the correct way to do this is:

Right click the release on your ruTorrent

Select "Save To..."

Choose the folder where you want to move the release, and make sure the options "Move Data Files" and "Fast Resume" are checked

To all of the above that complain about plex not refreshing. You have to understand, that you manage your own plex server now. This means you have administrative access on it, and you can refresh your libraries directly from within the plex interface yourselves. Furthermore, most probably, you don't have automatic updates enabled for your libraries in your plex server. You probably just have to go to your plex server settings and enable it

@Alias I guess the answer is here:
*Plex is the only application that does not update automatically. We need to test each new version (in order to make sure that no bugs have been introduced with the new version) and then we deploy the update to all clients.

Unfortunately it is very common new plex version to break things and perform much worse than previous versions.

So don't worry about it, at some point we will update it, once we are confident that it will not break anything in your service*

For anyone having trouble with Plex updating your new content you will need to do a couple of things to get the content to show up immediately.

Go to settings (wrench and screw driver icon on the upper right of the ui)
Select the "Server" tab on the upper right
Select "Library" in the list on the left
Check the first box "Update my library automatically"
Check the fourth box "Update my library periodically" and set the interval to your desired time

On your home page click the 3 dot menu next to the library you want to update (movie, music, tv, etc) and select "scan library files"

You can use both of these workflows together or separate depending on your needs. I personally use both. When I want to watch something right away is when I will use option 2. most of the time though option 1 will give you your content within a 5 minute window.

The only thing missing is actually how to use the seedbox with Flex. I had never used flex. So I did not know what to do with it.

It was later after I had clicked on the top left hand corner under the home icon and selected remote that it all started to make sense to me. b4 seeing that, I was doing all kinds of google searches to try to figure it out bc it was not obvious what the next step to do was. Hopefully this will help someone else as well.